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Reem Ateyeh retweeted
Dianne Penn is Head of Product for Research and Labs at @AnthropicAI. She joined in 2023 as their first technical PM (when there were just five product engineers) and has helped ship every Claude model from Claude 2 to Mythos.
We discuss:
02:31 Early Anthropic
08:55 The two biggest inflections
13:50 Inside the exponential
20:02 Token maxing
23:30 Anthropic Labs and the incubation model
27:30 How the AI research role works
31:35 How to become a top AI researcher
35:18 Frontier model safeguards
39:38 Hiring in the AI era
44:16 Building evals
47:48 Evals are the new PRDs
49:55 The importance of hands-on leadership
52:46 Finding joy in AI
58:10 How Dianne uses Claude
01:01:05 Avoiding overreliance on AI
01:03:50 The constitution that makes Claude better
01:07:11 AI writing and verification
01:11:40 Where human brains will continue to be valuable
01:14:10 Navigating AI with kids
01:16:26 Alignment, the future of the PM role, and burnout
01:21:54 Lightning round and final thoughts
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
BREAKING:
Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a MONSTER
We've been testing for about a week @every and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good.
Here's our vibe check:
- Beats GPT-5.5 on Senior Engineer bench. On our toughest benchmark Opus 4.8 scores a 63—a hair higher than GPT-5.5's score of 62, and a full 30 points higher than Opus 4.7. It tackled a ground-up rewrite of a production codebase, and actually built something that works.
HOWEVER: Coding performance varied a lot at different reasoning levels. We recommend using it on xhigh for best results.
- Incredibly good writer. Opus 4.8 scored a 79.6 on our writing benchmark—measuring models on real-world writing tasks we do all of the time like essay writing, promo email writing, and more. It beats GPT-5.5 by 6 points. It produces well-written prose with fewer "AI-isms". It's also very good at writing in your voice given the right context.
HOWEVER: Writing performance also varied with reasoning levels. Medium reasoning had higher incidence of AI-isms—we found best results with high.
- Beast at knowledge work. Opus 4.8 is very good at general knowledge work tasks like report creation, research and more. It produced the best PowerPoint one-shot we've ever seen on our deck generation benchmark.
- Emotionally intelligent, willing to question the frame. I've also found it to be quite good at talking through psychological or interpersonal issues. It has a high EQ, and it's also good at not glazing and helping to expand your perspective. Its thought process feels extremely rich and dynamic.
THE BAD:
These days a model is only as good as its harness, and Codex is still a far superior harness to the Claude Desktop app. This has kept me using Codex + GPT-5.5 as my daily driver, but I am flipping back and forth a lot more between Codex and Claude.
Anthropic is back baby!
Read the rest on @every:
every.to/vibe-check/opus-4-8…
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
The most female-led product org in tech right now:
Chief Product Officer: Ami Vora
Claude Code/Cowork Head of Product: Cat Wu
Claude Code/Cowork Head of Eng: Fiona Fung
Claude Platform Head of Product: Angela Jiang
Claude Platform Head of Eng: Katelyn Lesse
Research Head of Product: Dianne Penn
President: Daniela Amodei
(Also, the fastest-growing company in history)
30 mins into the claude code keynote and every speaker so far has been a woman. just saying 🫶🏻
@asvora @angjiang @katelyn_lesse @_catwu Dianne Penn @claudeai
I'm hiring someone to join my team at Anthropic to lead Claude Code comms.
This is not a role for someone who wants to run an old playbook. You'll need to be a Claude Code super user, understand developers and dev tools, and have great taste. You'll work hard, learn a lot, and ship with the best people around.
Non-traditional comms paths welcome. My DMs are open!
Apply directly here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/ant…
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
Earlier this week, I spent an afternoon inside Anthropic HQ meeting with various leaders. It was fascinating and I learned a lot. sources.news/p/my-day-inside…
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
We're hiring an editor-writer-engineer to own Anthropic's Engineering Blog
Eng blog is one of Anthropic's most widely read publications. It exists to share hard-won lessons our teams have learned about building AI to an audience comprised of engineers, technical founders, practitioners, and Twitter
Over the past two years we've put out such bangers as:
-Building effective agents
-Effective harnesses for long-running agents
-Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
This role requires engineering, writing, and editorial abilities in equal measure. It's also just really an unbelievably cool job for the right person. Perhaps you already read our eng blog and get mad because you think you could have written it better? That may be you. Perhaps you have extremely strong thoughts on the best writing that regularly feature on HN? Also maybe you. Perhaps you regularly comment on HN?...Maybe
I've led this blog for the past four months and can promise you interesting topics at the true edge of the frontier, with teams that are highly collaborative, extremely responsive, and extremely fun to work with
Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/ant…
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
Design lead for Claude: The classic design process is dead.
Here's what's replacing it.
Jenny Wen (@jennywen) leads design for Claude at @AnthropicAI, was previously director of design at @Figma, and a designer at @Dropbox, @Square, and @Shopify.
In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
🔸 Why the classic discovery → mock → iterate design process is becoming obsolete
🔸 What a day in the life of a designer at Anthropic looks like, including her AI tool stack
🔸 Whether AI will eventually surpass humans in taste and judgment
🔸 Why Jenny left a director role at Figma to return to IC work
🔸 The three archetypes Jenny is hiring for now
This conversation changed how I think about the future of design.
Listen now 👇
youtu.be/eh8bcBIAAFo
Six months ago, I joined Anthropic for what it stands for. And today that couldn't be clearer. Proud to be an Ant 🧡
A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
anthropic.com/news/statement…
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.
anthropic.com/news/statement…
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
Claude Code launched just one year ago. Today it writes 4% of all GitHub commits, and DAU 2x'd last month alone.
In my conversation with @bcherny, creator and head of Claude Code, we dig into:
🔸 Why he considers coding "largely solved"
🔸 What tech jobs will be transformed next
🔸 The counterintuitive bet that made Claude Code take off
🔸 Why he left for Cursor and what brought him back
🔸 Practical tips for getting the most out of Claude Code and Cowork
🔸 Much more
Listen now👇
youtube.com/watch?v=We7BZVKb…
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
The @DarioAmodei interview.
0:00:00 - What exactly are we scaling?
0:12:36 - Is diffusion cope?
0:29:42 - Is continual learning necessary?
0:46:20 - If AGI is imminent, why not buy more compute?
0:58:49 - How will AI labs actually make profit?
1:31:19 - Will regulations destroy the boons of AGI?
1:47:41 - Why can’t China and America both have a country of geniuses in a datacenter?
Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
A huge part of this raise is Claude Code.
Weekly active users doubled since January. People who've never written a line of code are building with it. Humbled to work on this every day with our team.
Reem Ateyeh retweeted
Introducing Claude Opus 4.6. Our smartest model got an upgrade.
Opus 4.6 plans more carefully, sustains agentic tasks for longer, operates reliably in massive codebases, and catches its own mistakes.
It’s also our first Opus-class model with 1M token context in beta.